(17 Apr 2025)
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Letchworth, UK – 17 April 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) jane fae (uncapitalised), a (one of several directors) director of TransActual UK, trans organisation:
"(I felt) in pieces (after the Supreme Court ruling). And that’s very reflective of pretty much the entire trans community. The number of people I have come across on social platforms, on forums, etc, saying this, how do I go on, I am in tears, I’m in pieces, I am shattered, I am broken. That seems to be pretty much a unanimous reaction."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) jane fae (uncapitalised), a (one of several directors) director of TransActual UK, trans organisation:
"This judgement leaves a great deal unsaid and unfinished. But The EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) which is the, which is the UK equalities body has been backfilled, let us say, by the last government with culture warriors and it’s very markedly anti-trans in its positions, and they have come out and made very clear that how they are going to interpret this ruling is going to be disastrous, particularly for trans women. No trans women in women’s changing rooms, no trans women in women’s loos, no trans women in women’s sports. It’s total exclusion and segregation."
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UK trans activist jane fae, a director of the group TransActual, said she was worried that the UK court ruling on the legal definition of a woman could mean “total exclusion and segregation” of trans women.
It comes as transgender women will be excluded from women’s toilets, hospital wards and sports teams after a U.K. Supreme Court ruling, the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said Thursday, as trans groups digested a judgment that could have a broad and detrimental impact on daily life.
While Britain’s highest court said there was no clear winner in its ruling defining a woman for anti-discrimination purposes as someone born biologically female, noting that transgender people remain protected from discrimination, trans groups said the decision would undermine their rights.
The feminist group that brought the court case said the outcome provided common sense, protected same-sex spaces for women and brought clarity to the thorny issue. But trans groups said it had caused fear and uncertainty.
“No trans women in women’s changing rooms, no trans women in women’s loos, no trans women in women’s sports," fae said.
“The number of people I have come across on social platforms, on forums, etc., saying ‘How do I go on? I am in tears, I’m in pieces. I am shattered. I am broken,’” fae said. “That seems to be pretty much a unanimous reaction.”
The ruling Wednesday came in a case that stemmed from a 2018 law passed by the Scottish Parliament that required at least 50% women on boards of Scottish public bodies. Transgender women with gender recognition certificates were to be included in meeting the quota.
But the court said that using a certificate to interpret someone’s sex would clash with definitions of man and woman and, therefore, the anti-discrimination provisions of the 2010 Equality Act could “only be interpreted as referring to biological sex.”
Out of some 66 million people in England, Scotland and Wales, about 116,000 identified as trans in the latest census count. About 8,500 gender recognition certificates have been issued.
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